At least if you're among the wealthy Arizona residents who received generous capital-gains tax cuts (to fund their own fabulous European vacations).

It also went very, very well for business owners who saw a series of tax breaks slipped through at the last minute on party-line votes dominated by the majority Republicans.

However, if you are among the women who saw their health-care options reduced, or among the public employees who now can be fired easily and replaced by political cronies, or among the tens of thousands of families who may lose their homes to foreclosure, you probably don't believe the legislative session went very, very well.

Distressed Arizona homeowners were set to receive assistance and legal aid as part of a mortgage settlement that brought $97.7 million to the Arizona Attorney General's Office.

The money is supposed to help the many Arizona homeowners struggling with foreclosure issues, some of which are the result of fraud and other abuses by lenders.

The governor and Republican legislators decided to "sweep" $50 million from that settlement money and put it into the general fund.

Last week, the Arizona Housing Alliance filed a lawsuit to stop them.

Valerie Iverson, executive director of the alliance, told me: "What they did shows you how out of touch these people are with their constituents. The homeowners are the people they should be helping. People who need their help. Did the lawmakers think that they could do this, take this money, and no one would care?"

Apparently, yes.

The Housing Alliance's lawsuit is being handled by Tim Hogan at the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest and Ellen Katz at the William E. Morris Institute for Justice. "We are requesting a temporary restraining order," Hogan told me. "The earliest that (Attorney General Tom) Horne can transfer the fund is July 1, which he indicated he would do."

Horne could fight the transfer.

"He (Horne) has said that this is bad public policy," Hogan said. "In truth, this is real money meant to help people who are suffering. What better cause is that?"

Awhile back, I asked Horne's office why the attorney general was not fighting the transfer. His spokeswoman told me it was because "they (legislators) have control over our budgets."

As if that is more important than fighting for working people. When the governor was asked by The Republic why she felt the $50 million sweep was justified, Brewer sidestepped the question, saying, "We know that we have issues regarding housing in the budget, so we felt it was proper."

So, it's proper to be "philosophically aligned" against struggling homeowners?

It's proper to allow working families to be kicked to the curb at the same time you create a $450 million "rainy-day fund"?

It's proper to act like Robin Hoods-in-Reverse, taking money from those in need while giving breaks to the wealthy?

The Arizona Housing Alliance says the $50 million that was swept would provide counseling for 75,000 homeowners and legal aid for 10,000.

"We're really grateful that Tim (Hogan) and Ellen (Katz) have taken on this case," said the alliance's Melanie Iverson.

"We'd prefer to work with legislators than to fight with them, but this is very important. And not just as a legal case.

"The courts will answer the question about whether or not the Legislature could do this. The question that all of the rest of us need to be asking, however, is: Should they do this?"